Negative Impacts
What is the largest negative impact on Coral Reefs?
What is the largest saving effort for Coral Reefs?
Pollution Reduction Programs
What do stronger international laws prevent?
Destructive deep-sea mining
What is the largest living structure of Reefs called?
What effects does sunscreen have?
Sunscreen chemicals damage DNA, harm reproduction, and cause bleaching
What does "MPA" stand for?
What are MPA's?
Deep water zones that are protected from fishing/drilling
Where are Coral Reefs mainly found?
Tropical waters in the Sunlight Zone
What is dynamite fishing?
Using explosives to incapacitate fish
What are catch quotas?
What will stricter limits on deep-sea fishing prevent?
Fishers from destroying and eliminating species
What percent of marine life do Coral Reefs support?
25%
What is cyanide fishing?
Spraying a mixture of cyanide into a habitat to incapacitate fish
Pause on mining minerals underwater
What will better deep-sea monitoring do?
Give us a better understanding of the ocean and monitor those looking to harm animals in the sea
How old is the oldest living Coral Reef?
500 million years old